James "Jimmy" J. Ling (December 31, 1922 - December 17, 2004), from Hugo, Oklahoma, was a US businessman and former head of Ling-Temco-Vought corporation. While at its helm Ling used LTV funds to purchase a large number of corporations, and was one of the more famous of the 1960s conglomerate managers. As with many conglomerates, higher interest rates and inflation destroyed LTV in the 1970s, as it did to ITT, Litton Industries, Teledyne and Textron